GVC Gaesco Different Investments, an funding arm of the Barcelona-based monetary group GVC Gaesco, has launched a €70 million fund centered on Infratech startups growing the bodily and digital infrastructure of the brand new financial system.
The Resilient Infratech Ventures FCRE, S.A. (RIF) fund, as it’s identified, was established with the purpose of filling a spot out there, as many capital-intensive expertise firms don’t match into both conventional enterprise capital or standard infrastructure financing.
Paco Illueca, Common Supervisor of GVC Gaesco Different Investments, says: “By our consumer community and investor relationships, we’re seeing rising demand for different methods linked to the actual financial system, technological innovation, and personal markets. In a context the place diversifying portfolios past conventional belongings is more and more vital, we imagine that {hardware} applied sciences and digital infrastructure signify one of the crucial enticing alternatives for stylish buyers within the coming years.”
GVC Gaesco Different Investments’ €70 million fund enters a European market the place EU-Startups has reported a gradual circulation of newly raised enterprise automobiles throughout sectors, albeit typically with completely different thematic focuses.
For instance, Amsterdam-based Volve Capital closed a €9 million debut fund focusing on early-stage startups throughout Benelux and DACH, whereas Paris-based Ventech raised a considerably bigger €175 million sixth flagship fund to put money into round 35 European firms. In Luxembourg, Catalpa Ventures introduced a €30 million HealthTech-focused car, and Sweden’s Incore Invest reached €40 million for its second fund centered on growth-stage expertise firms.
Taken collectively, these funds signify roughly €254 million in capital and illustrate the continued exercise in European fund formation throughout 2025.
In comparison with these automobiles, GVC Gaesco’s €70 million fund sits within the mid-range by way of dimension, however stands out for its express concentrate on InfraTech – significantly the intersection of vitality, industrial methods, and digital infrastructure – which is much less generally remoted as a standalone mandate within the cited articles.
Davide Cannarozzi, Managing Companion of RIF, provides: “We’ve got spent almost twenty years constructing this specialisation, first as founders and managers of expertise firms, and later as buyers. F4E – Financing for Fairness stems exactly from this hands-on expertise: understanding that capital-intensive firms can not scale with conventional fairness alone and require a way more subtle monetary structure to unlock their full potential.”
Based in 1971, GVC Gaesco is an unbiased monetary group with greater than 50 years of exercise, specialising in Wealth Administration (Funding Funds, SICAVs, Personal Fairness Funds, Pension Funds, Portfolio Administration, and Advisory), Securities Brokerage, Analysis, and Company Finance & Capital Markets.
The RIF will concentrate on applied sciences utilized to vitality, business and digital infrastructure – three sectors that, in line with GVC Gaesco, have gotten more and more interdependent in Europe. On this regard, RIF will establish alternatives in expertise firms engaged on vitality storage options, networks, industrial electrification, automation, useful resource effectivity, knowledge infrastructure and different applied sciences essential to European competitiveness.
The fund will make investments primarily in Europe, with a specific concentrate on markets resembling Spain, Italy, France and Portugal.
The fund has additionally obtained approval from the CNMV (Spanish Nationwide Securities Market Fee).
